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THE CRONY-ZONING PACKARDS, ASSISTED BY THE SELF-DEALING DEVELOPER-WEASEL CARL CORRINNE-CHAIRED PLANNING BOARD AND THE PLANNING BOARD’S SOCK PUPPET TOWN PLANNER, TRY FOR THE 3RD TIME IN 5 YEARS TO RE-ZONE PERFORMANCE ZONE 1 TO COMMERCIAL

Folks, I’ll be at the 19 February 2025 Sterling Proposed Zoning Changes Forum— https://www.sterling-ma.gov/home/news/public-forum-on-proposed-zoning-changes-february-19-2024-630-at-the-1835-town-hall-31-main Hope to see you there. First up is the proposal to re-zone Performance Zone 1 along Route 140 near Dana Hill Road to Commercial. Don’t be fooled by the deceptive euphemism ‘Gateway Enterprise District.’ MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT— IF APPROVEDContinue reading “THE CRONY-ZONING PACKARDS, ASSISTED BY THE SELF-DEALING DEVELOPER-WEASEL CARL CORRINNE-CHAIRED PLANNING BOARD AND THE PLANNING BOARD’S SOCK PUPPET TOWN PLANNER, TRY FOR THE 3RD TIME IN 5 YEARS TO RE-ZONE PERFORMANCE ZONE 1 TO COMMERCIAL”

REPORT ON THE ‘SECRET’ 4 FEBRUARY 2025 MEETING INVOLVING THE WRSD COMMITTEE, WRSD SUPERINTENDENT, 5-TOWN SELECT BOARD CHAIRS, 5-TOWN FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIRS, AND 5-TOWN ADMINISTRATORS—THE WRSD IS AN ONGOING BLOATED TRAINWRECK WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT

Am passing on to you a report, edited slightly, sent to me by a Paxton reader of this Blog whose name I shall keep in confidence. I am most grateful to him. Here it is: “I live in Paxton. The WRSC [WRSD Committee] is a disaster of epic proportions. Did you hear about the secret,Continue reading “REPORT ON THE ‘SECRET’ 4 FEBRUARY 2025 MEETING INVOLVING THE WRSD COMMITTEE, WRSD SUPERINTENDENT, 5-TOWN SELECT BOARD CHAIRS, 5-TOWN FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIRS, AND 5-TOWN ADMINISTRATORS—THE WRSD IS AN ONGOING BLOATED TRAINWRECK WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT”

LATEST RAPACIOUS WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT OUTRAGE—IT NOW SEEKS A 5% BUDGET INCREASE FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR, DRIVING STERLING, PAXTON, AND PRINCETON TOWARD PROPOSITION 2 ½ PROPERTY TAX OVERRIDE TERRITORY

As the outright cowardly BUFFOONS constituting the Sterling Select Board, the Select Boards in the other four WRSD towns, and the Finance Committees in the other four WRSD towns sit around with their thumbs stuck firmly up their asses, the utterly despicable and contemptible WRSD Superintendent Reilly and WRSD Committee members plan to jump theirContinue reading “LATEST RAPACIOUS WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT OUTRAGE—IT NOW SEEKS A 5% BUDGET INCREASE FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR, DRIVING STERLING, PAXTON, AND PRINCETON TOWARD PROPOSITION 2 ½ PROPERTY TAX OVERRIDE TERRITORY”

WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT HAS DROPPED 936 FROM FY 2010 THROUGH FY 2025, SO LET’S CLOSE/CONSOLIDATE SCHOOLS IN HOLDEN AND RUTLAND AND FIRE A BUNCH OF DEADWEIGHT PERSONNEL FEEDING FROM THE TAXPAYER-FUNDED PUBLIC TROUGH

The Wachusett Regional School District has lost so many students over the past 15 years that the student-teacher ratio is now down to 14:1. You can figure it out yourself by dividing the total number of students by the total number of teachers— Of course, there are multitudes of teachers’ assistants and ‘paraprofessionals’ (whatever THEYContinue reading “WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT HAS DROPPED 936 FROM FY 2010 THROUGH FY 2025, SO LET’S CLOSE/CONSOLIDATE SCHOOLS IN HOLDEN AND RUTLAND AND FIRE A BUNCH OF DEADWEIGHT PERSONNEL FEEDING FROM THE TAXPAYER-FUNDED PUBLIC TROUGH”

NOT EVEN MUSH FROM THE WIMPS! STERLING SELECT BOARD REMAINS SILENT AS THE EXTORTIONATE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT DEMANDS ANOTHER 4.5% ANNUAL BUDGET INCREASE DESPITE CRATERING SCHOOL DISTRICT STUDENT ENROLLMENT NUMBERS

It took two (2) very pointed emailed demands from me, months apart, before MassDESE released the WRSD’s 2024-2025 total student enrollment numbers. Now we know why. The WRSD student population has fallen yet again, from a peak of 7493 in FY 2010-2011 to 6557 this academic year– That’s down from 6676 in just the pastContinue reading “NOT EVEN MUSH FROM THE WIMPS! STERLING SELECT BOARD REMAINS SILENT AS THE EXTORTIONATE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT DEMANDS ANOTHER 4.5% ANNUAL BUDGET INCREASE DESPITE CRATERING SCHOOL DISTRICT STUDENT ENROLLMENT NUMBERS”

THE MENDACIOUS, ARROGANT, OUT-OF-CONTROL MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HOUSING AND LIVABLE COMMUNITIES IS NOW IN CONTEMPT OF THE SJC— IT ISSUES ‘EMERGENCY’ MBTA ZONING ‘GUIDELINES’ IGNORING THE 1/2 MILE LIMIT RE-AFFIRMED BY THE SJC

On 8 January 2025 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued its opinion in the Town of Milton case in which that town’s Answer and Counter-Claim challenged the application of Mass.Gen.Laws Ch. 40A, sec. 3A and the bogus ‘Compliance Guidelines’ issued previously by out-of-control buffoons constituting MassEOHLC. In its decision the SJC ruled that so-called ‘MBTAContinue reading “THE MENDACIOUS, ARROGANT, OUT-OF-CONTROL MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HOUSING AND LIVABLE COMMUNITIES IS NOW IN CONTEMPT OF THE SJC— IT ISSUES ‘EMERGENCY’ MBTA ZONING ‘GUIDELINES’ IGNORING THE 1/2 MILE LIMIT RE-AFFIRMED BY THE SJC”

THREE (3) STRONG, SMART, FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE STERLING SELECT BOARD CANDIDATES ARE NEEDED NOW. IT’S TIME TO END THE CRANSON-NEWMAN GUTLESS STUPIDITY/MUSH-FROM-WIMPS ERA

It’s time to end the Maureen ‘Our Lady of Perpetual Bullshit’ Cranson-Kirsten ‘What Maureen Said’ Newman era of Sterling Select Board gutless stupidity/mush-from-wimps. With two (2) completely new Select Board seats opening in May 2025 due to the approved expansion of the Select Board from three (3) to five (5) seats, and hapless blob DavidContinue reading “THREE (3) STRONG, SMART, FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE STERLING SELECT BOARD CANDIDATES ARE NEEDED NOW. IT’S TIME TO END THE CRANSON-NEWMAN GUTLESS STUPIDITY/MUSH-FROM-WIMPS ERA”

BREAKING NEWS: MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT RULES THAT SO-CALLED ‘MBTA COMMUNITIES MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING DISTRICTS’ MUST BE LOCATED WITHIN 0.5 MILES OF A TRANSIT STATION OR TERMINAL OF THE TYPE REFERRED TO IN MASS. GEN.LAWS CH. 40A, SEC. 3A. THEREFORE, STERLING IS EXEMPT FROM THAT STATUTE, HAVING NO LAND WITHIN MILES OF ANY SUCH STATION OR TERMINAL

The Massachusetts SJC justices, being political hacks appointed by various governors to whose campaigns they contribute, and whose salaries and benefits are subject to the legislature’s appropriations, were, of course, intellectually dishonest in ruling that Mass.Gen.Laws Ch. 40A, Sec. 3A was ‘mandatory’ for cities and towns covered by its language even though the statute expresslyContinue reading “BREAKING NEWS: MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT RULES THAT SO-CALLED ‘MBTA COMMUNITIES MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING DISTRICTS’ MUST BE LOCATED WITHIN 0.5 MILES OF A TRANSIT STATION OR TERMINAL OF THE TYPE REFERRED TO IN MASS. GEN.LAWS CH. 40A, SEC. 3A. THEREFORE, STERLING IS EXEMPT FROM THAT STATUTE, HAVING NO LAND WITHIN MILES OF ANY SUCH STATION OR TERMINAL”

STERLING D.P.W. ‘GARAGE MAHAL’ BOONDOGGLE PROJECTED TO COST $33 MILLION AND INCREASE STERLING PROPERTY TAX RATE BY 11%. THESE D.P.W. F#CKERS ARE ABSOLUTELY OUT OF CONTROL.

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND BEND OVER! THE STERLING D.P.W. BOARD WANTS TO RAM US ALL BIG TIME STARTING IN 2025. THEY WANT A NEW $33 MILLION ‘GARAGE MAHAL’ BOONDOGGLE COSTING $33 MILLION THAT WOULD INCREASE THE STERLING PROPERTY TAX RATE BY 11%!!! THESE D.P.W. F#CKERS ARE ABSOLUTELY OUT OF CONTROL. SEE  https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/minutes/11-13-2024_dpw_facility_committee_minutes.pdf GET READY TOContinue reading “STERLING D.P.W. ‘GARAGE MAHAL’ BOONDOGGLE PROJECTED TO COST $33 MILLION AND INCREASE STERLING PROPERTY TAX RATE BY 11%. THESE D.P.W. F#CKERS ARE ABSOLUTELY OUT OF CONTROL.”